Improvement in drawer-desks



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEroE.

ERNEST N. DORING, 0F NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN DRAWER-DESKS.l

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 187.829, dated February '27, 1877; application led February 3, 1877.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ERNEST DORING, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Drawer- Desk, of which the following is a specification:

The nature of this invention consists in contructinga desk with a double set of pigeonholes, the whole being so arranged as to shut up and slide into a chiftouier, or other suitable piece of furniture, the back of the folding pigeon-holes being finished the same as the chiifonier front, so as not to mar its appearance.

Figure l represents a perspective View, showingl the desk open. Fig. 2 is a cross section through the line m cc, showing the desk closed.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

In the case here presented', A represents an ordinary chiftonier, in which the desk B is Situated, and is free to slide in and out at the rear ofthe desk, and upon the same the partitions C are rigidly attached. The boxes D D', containing the pigeon-holes E E', are hinged at F `Fto the desk-partitions.

It will here be observed, that in order to shut the desk the pigeonhole boxes D D' inust first be closed inward, then the desk may be bodily` pushed into the chiffonier, and be whollyout ot' sight, the backs of the pigeon-hole boxes D D having a similar ornamentation or nish as the face of the chiffonler.

To open the desk it will rst be necessary to draw it bodily ont-ward until the hinges F are brought out beyond the face of chiftonier, at which time the said pigeon-hole boxes can be swung open, as shown in Fig. l.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire lto secure by Letters Patent- As a new article of manufacture, a sliding '0r drawer desk, having a durable set of pigeon-holes hinged thereto, the whole closing into a chittonier, or other suitable article of furniture, in the manner substantially as herein set forth, shown, and described.

ERNEST N. DORING. Witnesses:

CHARLES H. N Asti, G. SEDGwIoK. 

